Gabriel Hurley wrote: > 1. I'll repeat my call for a list (somewhere) of who OpenStack's "downstream > stakeholders" are. I'm in favor of our commitment of support and cooperation, > but providing openness and insight into who we're offering it to would be > awesome.
The trick is, you don't know who, in the community, is a stakeholder affected by a particular decision you make. So it's hard to come up with an "official list of people/projects we care about". The solution is to communicate, on the mailing-list, about development decisions you want to make and that are likely to affect other parties. New dependencies have been identified multiple times in the past as an area that could benefit from wider cooperation between affected parties, hence the requirement that they are discussed before they are implemented. That doesn't mean you have to tick every box on a static list of "people we officially care about". It's just about discussing solutions based on input from beyond the core developers group of a given project, and try to come up with the best option. You may not please everyone, but at least the final decision will be better understood and accepted. The rest of your email provides very interesting insight on the decision, and it may well convince everyone that this is the right thing to do. Discussing it beforehand avoids harsh feelings and unnecessary flames. Regards, -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp